Venetia Kotta (Pontic: Βενετία Κώττα; 1897 or 1901 – 1945) was a Greek archaeologist, museum curator, and Byzantine historian from Sampsunta in the former Ottoman Empire.
She studied the Byzantines under Gabriel Millet and earned a PhD while attending school in Paris.
[2] In 1933, Kotta applied for a job at the University of Thessaloniki, aiming to teach a course about the people's public and private lives in Byzantine times.
[4] After the authoritarian Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas came to power in 1936, a law was passed which forbade women from joining the Archaeological Service.
Women already employed there could continue to work, but they couldn't become the directors of museums or archaeological programs.